Pelosi appears to believe the voters elected a Democratic majority to the House in order to be moderate and safe. She is entirely protective of the conservative Democrats within the caucus who tried to thwart her speakership before it even began, and who vote with the Republicans much of the time.

All of the above are in line with Bernie Sanders' politics and all are extremely popular, with support across the political spectrum. For example, the infrastructure jobs program (a key element of Sanders' platform) had 91% support from Democrats, 61% from independents and even 55% support from Republicans -- compared to only 28% who were opposed.

Government also accrued a non-cash interest expense of $187 billion for intra-governmental debt, primarily the Social Security Trust Fund, for a total interest expense of $432 billion. BTW Military budget is 500+ Billion.

IT won't be long now interest payments will be more than the military budget.

with projected surpluses for a decade as he left office.

If nothing changed in SocialSecurity Entitlements.

who pissed away all the nation's money from 2001 to 2009?

I suppose you are referring to the Iraq war, while expensive, it was only $2.4Trillion dollars, or about 5-7% of spending over ten years. In welfare spending alone in 2017 we spent $4 trillion.

You don't even know the numbers, you don't even know how we spend our tax revenue.

The Green New Deal failed to pass a procedural hurdle in the Senate on Tuesday, with Democrats denouncing the motion as a "sham" and largely voting "present" as a show of unity.

Between the lines: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell brought the vote in a political effort to get Democrats on the record and highlight intra-party divisions over the ambitious proposal. Democrats have argued McConnell held the vote in order to eliminate any debate, hearings or public testimony about the resolution, which many see as a starting point for addressing the threats posed by climate change.